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List:       racf-l
Subject:    Re: You Know You've Been Doing Too Much RACF When...
From:       Doc Farmer <DocFarmer9999 () YAHOO ! CO ! UK>
Date:       2010-03-30 20:00:10
Message-ID: 201003302000.o2UJhNGt017791 () malibu ! cc ! uga ! edu
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Sadly, that's not how it works.

Okay, truth is I couldn't find the names of the folks who wrote CA-Top
Secret, so you three were next in line.  Sorry 'bout that...

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:11 -0600, Barry Schrager <BarrySchrager@CS.COM>
wrote:

>And that forced RACF to become a better product.  So, we should be
receiving
>accolades instead
>Of pins ...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doc Farmer [mailto:DocFarmer9999@YAHOO.CO.UK]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:43 AM
>To: RACF-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU; BarrySchrager@CS.COM
>Subject: Re: You Know You've Been Doing Too Much RACF When...
>
>Simple. They created ACF2...
>
>On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:26:14 -0600, Barry Schrager <BarrySchrager@CS.COM>
>wrote:
>
>>You know, before RACF was announced, IBM announced a $40 million program
>for
>>Data Security.  Then RACF came.
>>
>>Now, how could three guys who worked at the University of Illinois have
>that
>>much of an impact on RACF?
>>
>>Barry
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: RACF Discussion List [mailto:RACF-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>Doc
>>Farmer
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:52 AM
>>To: RACF-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>Subject: Re: You Know You've Been Doing Too Much RACF When...
>>
>>Hey, it took me years to figure out that my ex wives both
>>used voodoo dolls of me. All that time I thought it was
>>old age catching up with me (or, more accurately, running
>>over me)...
>>
>>On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:27:43 -0600, Barry Schrager <BarrySchrager@CS.COM>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>   There are voodoo dolls of Barry Schrager, Eberhard
>>>   Klemens and Scott Krueger hanging on your wall,
>>>   riddled with pins
>>>
>>>Ouch !!!
>>>
>>>Barry
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: RACF Discussion List [mailto:RACF-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>>Doc
>>>Farmer
>>>Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:23 AM
>>>To: RACF-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>Subject: OT: You Know You've Been Doing Too Much RACF When...
>>>
>>>I know it's not Friday yet, but sometimes you just
>>>need a chuckle in the MIDDLE of the week, not only
>>>at the weekend.  Phil Smith over at IBM-MAIN started
>>>a thread entitled "You know you've been doing too
>>>much MVS when..." and so, in that spirit I figured
>>>we could do better.
>>>
>>>
>>>You Know You've Been Doing Too Much RACF When...
>>>
>>>** You arrange your family by group tree order
>>>
>>>** Your dreams are haunted by thousands of creatures
>>>   following you, all with UID=0 on their foreheads
>>>
>>>** You complain that your waitress brought your coffee
>>>   DISCRETE, when you plainly asked for GENERIC
>>>
>>>** You have a box hidden in a file drawer with all of
>>>   your backup User ID settings and key dataset
>>>   profiles - on 80 column cards
>>>
>>>** You've ever been fired from a job for plotting to
>>>   kill the sysprog who kept creating APF-Auth'd
>>>   libraries in the HFS
>>>
>>>** You actually give a rat's rear end about why the
>>>   Installation Data field are laid out differently
>>>   for User IDs, Datasets, Groups and GenRes
>>>   profiles (holding up hand sheepishly here...)
>>>
>>>** You play "The RVARY Polka" on your accordian at
>>>   office parties
>>>
>>>** You play your accordian at office parties
>>>
>>>** You play an accordian because it represents to you
>>>   a metaphor for RACF's use of dynamic storage
>>>
>>>** You perform a gangsta rap entitled "RACF Error Codes
>>>   in hex", and threaten to pop an S913 in someone's
>>>   ass
>>>
>>>** Your divorce decree specifically prohibits your ex
>>>   from every having the OPERATIONS parameter
>>>
>>>** There are voodoo dolls of Barry Schrager, Eberhard
>>>   Klemens and Scott Krueger hanging on your wall,
>>>   riddled with pins
>>>
>>>** You know the difference between ICHZA290, ICHZA490
>>>   and ICHZA790
>>>
>>>** You try to RACROUTE using MapQuest
>>>
>>>** You scratch off "USS" on your model(s) of the
>>>   Enterprise because you feel it's a UNIX plot to
>>>   corrupt the purity of your mainframe
>>>
>>>** You've legally changed your name to IBMUSER, and
>>>   your children are named (in order) SYS1,
>>>   VSAMDSET and SYSCTLG
>>>
>>>** There's a shrine to Walt Farrell in the corner of
>>>   your office (holding up hand sheepishly here...)
>>>
>>>Have fun. Many thanks.
>>>
>>>Doc Farmer
>>>Senior Security Specialist
>>>InfoSec, Inc.
>>>
>>>Website: http://www.InfoSecInc.com
>>>e-Mail: DFarmer@InfoSecInc.com
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